Over 150 ‘Ghost’ Colleges Deregistered as Part of VET Sector Clean Up

A review of registered Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers has discovered more than 150 that were no longer operating but could, in theory, have been eligible for government funds. The clean-up is part of the Albanese government’s effort to improve integrity in the international education sector, which included “serious instances of exploitation of overseas students” up to and including human trafficking, a recent Policy Impact Analysis (pdf) said. Problems in the sector have been evident since at least 2018 when the Braithwaite Review reported on “seriously unscrupulous behaviour resulting in significant harm being done not only to the sector’s reputation but to the wellbeing—financial and emotional—of a significant cohort of students.”...